Another privacy note: in Profile settings ([instance url]/settings/profile), there's an option to toggle "Require follow requests".

Positives:
- Prevent people you don't feel comfortable with from seeing your private posts.
- Prevent people on shitty instances from sharing your private posts with their instance.

Negative:
- You have to vet everyone who requests to follow your account, which makes it harder to form a large audience.

Up to you what you want to do, but that's what that means.

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@packbat Another note: A lot of people (us included) who have that option turned on require some form of introduction before accepting a follow request
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